topic Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED in Operating System - OpenVMS

CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Uwe Kroyer — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:53:42 GMT

I've done an upgrade to OpenVMS V8.3. When I try to install any ECO now following failure occurse.

SYSTEM:>prod instal VMS83A_UPDATE

Performing product kit validation ...

%PCSI-E-VALFAILED, validation of DSA110:[ALPHA.OPENVMS.]DEC
-AXPVMS-VMS83A_UPDATE-V0500--4.PCSI$COMPRESSED;1 failed
-PCSI-E-CDSA_TEXT, CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED: The module failed a self-check
%PCSI-E-S_OPFAIL, operation failed
%PCSIUI-E-ABORT, operation terminated due to an unrecoverable error condition
SYSTEM:>

I've installed the failing ECOs on a other system already. Everthing works fine there.

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance

Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Volker Halle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:42:26 GMT

Uwe,

did you keep a session log of the upgrade ? Did CDSA get correctly upgraded ?

@SYS$STARTUP:CDSA$UPGRADE should have been automatically run during the initial boot after the upgrade.

Volker.

Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Hoff — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:51:59 GMT

PCSI has traditionally gotten cranky with its home-grown file parsing logic mishandling the angle-bracket directory notation.

If this is the case here, try setting your default over to [AXPVMS.PATCHES.V083], and try re-installing the ECO kit.

My various device and directory logical names once contained angle brackets (as a test of tools), and PCSI regularly ran afoul of that.

And for those OpenVMS releases that have one, do make sure you have the current PCSI ECO kit installed as a first ECO kit loaded. That tends to better stabilize PCSI, and having the PCSI ECO loaded earlier is better than later here.

Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Volker Halle — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:16:15 GMT

Uwe,

you can manually test validation of the kit and you can also install the kit with PROD INSTAL/OPT=NOVALIDATE_KIT

See previous thread:

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1189476

Volker.

Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Uwe Kroyer — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:38:12 GMT

Hi,

Volker got it. I've done a CDSA$UPDGRADE again and then it works. I could not find a failure inside the session log.
I've never had problems with brackets. I use square bracket for logical definitions and angle bracket for typing, but I'll keep it in mind.

Thanks

Uwe

Re: CSSMERR_CSSM_SELF_CHECK_FAILED

Hoff — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:18:29 GMT

From your original post:

"...MS.]
There are angles in the path somewhere.